Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 53
The town takes its name from King Hroar, and the many fountains in the neighborhood.
Who acts: town, capital · What happens: take, name · To what, where: name, King Hroar
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (town, capital), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 town | det |
| 2 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 takes | nsubj |
| 3 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 name | nmod:poss |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 takes | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 Hroar | case |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Hroar | compound |
| 8 | Hroar | Hroar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 takes | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fountains | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fountains | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fountains | det |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fountains | amod |
| 13 | fountains | fountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 takes | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 neighborhood | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 neighborhood | det |
| 16 | neighborhood | neighborhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fountains | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 takes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | the town | capital's name | King Hroar | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent name=Theme from hroar=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | name | capital | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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